Art and Sound Around Campus

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Location: Queen's University, 99 University Ave, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2V7, Canada

Megan McIntyre

This walk focuses on the various art sculptures that are located around Queen's University Campus and my musical interpretation of each.

Time Sculpture

This is a musical representation of my favourite place to study and relax on campus, the Time Sculpture located in Breakwater Park. My work is structured to mirror the shape of the sculpture. The sound builds up to a peak, before a period of silence that represents the break in the sculpture, and then the sound works backwards in an almost identical manner, again to follow what the sculpture looks like. This piece uses recordings of the lake that I recorded here, as well as sequences generated on VCV Rack.

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Five

Five is my artistic sound interpretation of Alan Dickson's work "Five Sculptures on Topological Themes." These beautiful, smooth sculptures were designed to have a continual surface, and therefore this piece was created around the idea of continuity. The pre-recorded flute piece repeats over and over again with different reiterations based on live flute which influenced how the playback would be altered. This piece is composed for a trio, pre-recorded flute, live flute and modular synthesizer.

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Saqqara

“Saqqara”, a duet for metal structure and modular synthesizer, was inspired by the sculpture Pyramidal Structure – Sakkarah located behind Jeffrey Hall. This piece is more literally inspired by the sculpture itself as all of the sounds used in this piece (not including the tones from the modular synthesizer) are recorded noises of myself banging on the metal to hear its resonant tones using contact microphones (see cover photo). Not only are the sounds directly from the structure, but the story guiding my piece comes from the inspiration for said structure, the ancient Saqqara burial grounds in Egypt. After researching the history of this location, I structured my piece around the burial traditions of ancient Egypt. The first section, 0:00-1:45, represents the burial parade where the body is placed in the tomb. The second section, 1:45-3:05, represents the priest re-awakening the senses of the dead and the body awakening to face the afterlife, confused. The last section, 3:05-end, represents the judgement of the soul at the hands of Osiris, the god of the underworld.

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Audio Tour of Queen's University Campus - Kingston

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Welcome to the official guided audio tour of Queen's University Main and West campuses presented by the Queen's Undergraduate Recruitment and Admissions Team in collaboration with the Queen's Campus Tours Program. This audio tour can be used while walking through campus, or while sitting at home! If using as a walking tour, the clips will play automatically once you reach the building. If you are using at home, you will have to select each stop and listen at your own time. Enjoy! Thank you to all of those who made this tour possible: CFRC Recording and sound editing: Megan McIntyre Photography: DoubleSpace Photography, Tia Wilson, Garrett Elliott, Kingston Drone Pros Background tracks: Aidan Mcgrath, Duncan Stuart, Hailey Leslie, Kaiwen Want, Liam Terry, Matthew Wark, Maxwell Keleher, Megan McIntyre, Nicholas Sanatamaura, Taylor Hill, Victoria Wang, Will Tracy, Yufu She, Yujie Liu Speakers: Queen's Tour Guides

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Soundscape compositions created for binaural headphone listening by students in MUSC255 (Electroacoustic Composition) in February-March 2019. The composition assignment called for engagement with a specific location on campus, gathering sounds from that place and working with them in the studio to create a sonic portrait of the site. Binaural audio requires headphones for listening, and should give a sense of sounds occurring 360 degrees around you. Thank you to Echoes for existing as an easy-to-use platform for geolocating these pieces to their sites. Enjoy exploring! MUSC255 is taught by Dr Matt Rogalsky. Please send any questions or comments to rogalsky@queensu.ca.

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